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by mrb 4708 days ago
Maybe some non-democratic governments will become hostile to Bitcoin, but democratic ones will most likely not try to stop it because they eventually do what the people want.

Case in point: even the US Treasury Department's FinCEN bureau recognized enthusiastically that Bitcoin offers "potential" and "holds great promise" to US economy: http://www.fincen.gov/news_room/speech/pdf//20130613.pdf